Aryan Garg

I'm a 2nd year CS PhD student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, advised by Professor Mohit Gupta.

I have been fortunate to work with many brilliant professors and experts throughout my journey. Prof. Renu Rameshan ignited my interest in computer vision early during my Bachelor's at IIT Mandi which also led me to exploring generative modeling for outdoor lighting during my junior year with Prof. Jean-François Lalonde and Dr. Yannick Hold-Geoffroy. After graduating, I spent a wonderful year at IIT Madras getting closer to sensors alongside developing 3D reconstruction and generative facial video editing methods as a Bosch Research Fellow at the Computational Imaging Lab directed by Prof. Kaushik Mitra. Interestingly, my vision sensors and generative interests got a human touch to them as I spent the summer of '24 at the Computational Behaviour Lab, advised by Prof. Antti Oulasvirta and now Professor, Yue Jiang.

My research focuses on generative modeling for imaging, vision, and photography. Currently, I'm working on HDR text-to-image models, semantically controllable dynamic range expansion, and lifting diffusion priors to long-horizon text-to-video generation.

Apart from research, I enjoy riding my motorcycle, baking and trekking. I also love to travel during the holidays to meet my close friends Julian Fabinc and Noemi Ippolito.